Amit Rotem

Amit Yosef Rotem, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Assistant Professor at University of Toronto (UofT), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Rotem had graduated medical school at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. As a student, he had initiated a unique HMOs collaboration to deliver evidence-based services for smoking cessation which became the first Israeli academic Centre for Smoking Prevention and Cessation. During his residency in child and adolescent psychiatry, he developed educational methods to incorporate nicotine addiction into health sciences curricula. Dr. Rotem has graduated three-year fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry, UofT. He is currently affiliated with the Nicotine Dependence Clinic, and Youth Addiction and Concurrent Disorder Service at CAMH, Toronto. Dr. Rotem is covering the services of Youth Urgent Care and Academic Day Hospital (REACH), among others. Dr. Rotem has published clinical studies, reviews, and chapters on youth and adults addictions, nicotine dependence in particular. He is actively involved in teaching medical students and supervising residents and fellows, at the Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UofT.

Research Synopsis

Substance Use Disorders among Adolescents with concurrent mental health disorders. Smoking cessation, including nicotine replacement therapy and counselling, for adolescent with diverse psychopathologies. Crisis intervention and suicide prevention among youth with substance use disorder and concurrent mental Health disorders.